But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI intend to make Georgia howl.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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